Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century
Wyatt, Thomas. Sir 1503–1542 Howard, Henry. Earl of Surrey c. 1517–1547 Ralegh, Walter. Sir 1552–1618 Sidney, Philip. Sir 1554–1586 Sidney, Mary. Countess of Pembroke 1561–1621 Drayton, Michael. 1563–1631 Davies, John. Sir 1569–1626
Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century / edited by Douglas Brooks-Davies - 1992 , GB - Everyman's Library 1992
This anthology of sixteenth-century verse features the courtier voices of the middle to late Tudor period, from Henry ⅤⅠⅠⅠ's Reformation to the uncertanties over the succession which clouded the last years of Elizabeth's reign. These poems are loving, witty, sometimes theologically solemn—even apocalyptic. Some are laments, others are triumphant, weaving fictions about monarchical supremacy (and quietly undercutting them). Sometimes they imitate older modles like Virgil, or more recent ones such as Petrarch, but above all the poems are startlingly contemporary in their concern with contingency, power, politics and with humanity's ability,through poetry, to transcend persecution and imprisonment.
0-460-87103-x = Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century
Poetry
Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century / edited by Douglas Brooks-Davies - 1992 , GB - Everyman's Library 1992
This anthology of sixteenth-century verse features the courtier voices of the middle to late Tudor period, from Henry ⅤⅠⅠⅠ's Reformation to the uncertanties over the succession which clouded the last years of Elizabeth's reign. These poems are loving, witty, sometimes theologically solemn—even apocalyptic. Some are laments, others are triumphant, weaving fictions about monarchical supremacy (and quietly undercutting them). Sometimes they imitate older modles like Virgil, or more recent ones such as Petrarch, but above all the poems are startlingly contemporary in their concern with contingency, power, politics and with humanity's ability,through poetry, to transcend persecution and imprisonment.
0-460-87103-x = Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century
Poetry